Just got off the phone with Nintendo tech support concerning my recently acquired copy of Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World. The game didn’t retain its saves after shutting down the computer. Sounds like a battery problem, right? Well, it turns out that SMA2 has a solid-state save memory, so no batteries required. There are apparently quite a number of illegal copies of it out there, which do use a battery. Boohoohoo, I probably have a non-official version of the game.
I even have the box in which it came :S Aaah well, this means I’ll just have to get by without saving (or without shutting down the DS Lite / GBA Micro).
tsk, illegal games. Bad Hugo! ;)
(Seriously, that sucks.)